Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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Everybody has something wrong with them.
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.